We Are An Archipelago

Book Launch

Sunday 1 June

Anita’s, Mountshannon

5pm

Duration1h

€10, €8 with wb

Accompanied by renowned pianist Patrick O'Laoghaire, Erin Fornoff launches and performs We Are An Archipelago, a poetry book with a plot from Salmon Poetry which tells the semi-true story of ninety-nine year old Bill, who moves back to the little island of his birth, after 80 years gone. With a live musical backdrop provided by pianist Patrick O'Laoghaire (of I Have a Tribe) this performance and book imagine his return and his unlikely friendship with young pregnant woman Deena.

Washed up, they wait out a hurricane at the dusk
and dawning of their two lives.